Sergeant Lubberts

I've had a lot of weird things happen in trial. I've never in my life had evidence such as this.

It seemed like a big box of puzzle pieces.

When Brent and I got involved in it, the emails started, the phone calls, castigating us for taking this. After all, doesn't a homeowner have a right to defend his dwelling? You know, I didn't argue with people. I just said, well, just stay open and let the evidence come out, and then let's see if you hold that same view.

Yes. Yes, he did. But that's not what he did. He went way, way beyond defending himself.

Coming up. I've tried a lot of murder cases, and this one seemed like a real challenge.

Because a lot of people thought we'd lose it.

I've tried a lot of murder cases, and this one in particular seemed like a real challenge.

Because a lot of people thought we'd lose it.

Not this case, not these facts.

I say he's a murderer. And murderers can't be heroes.

Clearly. He planned, he prepared, and he was determined to kill whoever is breaking into his house and stealing his property.

It just seemed like Byron Smith was deer hunting, like a lot of folks do in Minnesota, where you get in your stand and you wait and you wait, and when a deer comes by, you shoot and kill it. And it just seemed like that's what he did with these kids.

I do. And it knocked me out. I've never been able to hear a murder actually occurring.

Indeed, we did.

In your left eye. Why would he say that a half hour before anyone came over? Well, when you go through the autopsy photographs, you see that he shot Haley Kiefer in her left eye.

Not just shooting him, but where. Where in the face is he going to shoot him?

Twelve minutes.

It was frightening.

And as he's going down the stairs, you can hear him get shot.

So she comes in and goes right to the basement, starts walking down, and that's when he shoots her.

She's screaming in a high pitch, saying, oh, my God, oh, my God.